Arizona 5th-graders plotted to murder boy in bathroom and make it look like suicide, police say

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Arizona 5th-graders plotted to murder boy in bathroom and make it look like suicide, police say​

One of the accused students, a girl, was allegedly in a "relationship" with the victim who had cheated on her, according to the Surprise Police Department.​

June 27, 2025 / Updated June 27, 2025
A group of fifth-grade students were arrested last fall over an alleged plot to murder a fellow student after being overheard discussing their plans, according to a newly released police report.

Four students at the Legacy Traditional School in Surprise, Arizona, were accused of planning to fatally stab a fellow fifth grade student and forge a suicide note to make it appear self-inflicted, according to the police report. A parent alerted the school of the plot on Oct. 1, 2024, after their child overheard the group talking about it.

The students and their parents were instructed to come back to the school the following morning for the school's investigation, per the report.

Through the investigation, it was found that one of the accused students, a girl, was allegedly in a "relationship" with the victim, a boy, who had cheated on her, according to the report. The girl hated him and wanted him dead, the report said.

Legacy Traditional School - West Surprise in Arizona.Google maps
During a lunch on Oct. 1, 2024, the students were involved in a conversation on how to "end him," the report said. According to interviews with the suspects, the plan involved allegedly luring the boy to a bathroom and stabbing him in the stomach.

They would wear gloves so as not to leave behind fingerprints and forge a suicide note, the report said.

One of the students interviewed said she had walked over while the group was discussing the plot and made jokes about it, according to the report. But the girl insisted that she was joking while the other students "started to get serious" and she began to back off as a result, the report said.

Another student told police that they were part of the conversation because they didn't want the others to think they were "weird and not wanting to do it," according to the report. This student said they didn't think the others would actually do it and that they didn't want to be a part of it.

A third student said conversations about allegedly plotting to kill the student made her uncomfortable, but she ultimately thought her fellow students were joking, according to the report. When she was assigned the role of guard, she realized "they were serious," she said.

The parent of the victim, who was identified in the report, told police that she wanted to "aid in prosecution of the students," who allegedly plotted to kill her son, the report said. The parent did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The four students — two 10 year olds and two 11 year olds — were all arrested on one count of threatening and another count of disorderly conduct, per the report. The students were released into the custody of their parents and suspended, pending expulsion.

Three students and their families showed remorse and the students apologized, according to the report. A fourth student and her parent did not appear to be fazed and the student "would smile and laugh and made excuses for the actions," the report said.

In a statement, Legacy Traditional School said the safety and well-being of their students is their top priority and that the school immediately addressed the incident after learning about it.

"Due to federal student privacy laws, we cannot discuss individual student disciplinary matters," the statement read. "As outlined in the Legacy Student Code of Conduct, any student who makes or shares a threat may face disciplinary action, up to and including expulsion."

Parents of the suspected students did not immediately respond to NBC's requests for comment.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

Where is the media blitz about toxic femininity treating males as disposable animals to be slaughtered on any fragile female's petty whim? This sludge is endangering boys.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

How TF does a 5th grader even cheat on someone

WTF is in the water supply

Probably joining a Roblox server involving another girl, maybe talking to some thot on discord.

 

[Safir]

More ammo for the "single parent household results in sociopaths" crowd.

They're probably white, more likely mommy is going to school because someone has to and daddy is at work. Get raped by shitskins (provisionally).

 

[Male Idiot]

Ayyyy carambaaa! This smells like spics to me.

Nignogs would not have plotted, just chimped.

 

[Sneedenhagen Chew]

I’m actually more disturbed that they were planning to fake a suicide rather than just kill him. Thats like an extra level of malice.

You just know it was gonna be some humiliating note like "I got molested and now I'm gay I just want to be straight and get back with my ex girlfriend I cheated on" too.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

The kids aren't all right.

 

[Sneedenhagen Chew]

Probably amounts to “eating lunch together and holding hands sometimes”.

It's definitely this. Anyone with a healthy (for a preteen) social life was doing this in the early 00s when I was that age.

Anyway, it should be a crime to give anyone under the age of 18 access to the internet.

 

[Idiotron]

Ah, this brings back memor.... I mean, this is horrible.

 

[Fount of BadSpeak]

I don't know why people here are so surprised 5th graders were dating. Girls were giving head and even fucking in middle school when I was a kid, and that was back in the mid to late 2000s. I imagine it's exponentially worse now due to the rampant whoring and hedonism "culture" straight out of Brave New World. The violence isn't surprising either, as the majority Hispanic schools I went to had gang problems in middle schools as well. The only way this is surprising is if you had the luxury of growing up around whites.

Surprisingly only 5% Niggers. Pretty horrifying that this is the kind of stuff schoolchildren engage in, though it could be just usual shittalking and getting the teachers blow it out of proportion.

But nearly 20% Hispanic, which would be my guess for who these "kids" here were. Don't know why people pretend that blacks are the only browns that constantly engage in violence over petty slights. Hispanics are almost as bad as blacks despite everyone pretending otherwise, but they have enough low cunning to think more than fifteen seconds into the future to enact their violence.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

Had my first "date" in 5th grade (our parents took us to a movie) so not shocked about that. The whole murder plot thing, is it the rise of true crime podcasts? Thats a pretty detailed thing she came up with.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

I don't know why you all are so surprised by kids "dating" in fifth grade. That's been happening for at least 20 years now. Maybe more. Kids LARP. They love LARPing to seem grown up. It doesn't go very far but if left unchecked it could go further. They also love to make their problems seem more important and bigger than they are because it makes them seem more mature. Hence why cheating is an reprehensible crime worthy of murder.

In reality what probably happened is the ex girlfriend got dumped and saw the boy talking to some other girl and she just ASSUMED he was cheating on her. She did what all bitches do and cry to her friends. Then either the Queen Bee whether it's the ex or not, is a genuine psychopath and said he needs to die for it. Then everyone else followed because they're sisters who stick out for each other or some bullshit. They asked ChatGpt something like "How have people gotten away with murder in the past?" and it gave them an answer and bam. Plan set up.

They would've gone through with it too if they hadn't been caught.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

Hispanics are almost as bad as blacks despite everyone pretending otherwise, but they have enough low cunning to think more than fifteen seconds into the future to enact their violence.

I could have written your whole post myself, but I have to laugh at our shared suffering of looking at 5th graders in a relationship and plotting to stage a suicide by stabbing the victim to death and know instantly it's the work of spics, while everyone else is scratching their heads because there's no niggers. Just what you deal with when you grow up around the Based Catholics.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Imagine if it wasn’t even that he cheated on her, he just broke up with her.

By cheating on her they probably meant he talked with another girl.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

I'm partial on this being white-adjunct since I cannot imagine black students taking the time to forge a suicide note. Either way, dear Lord, those "children" are monsters.

The fact there was a complex plan involved to insulate the perpetrators from the consequences means you knew it had to be fucking whites or asians, maybe upper-class latinos.
It was still a retarded plan made by fucking 5th graders, but it still required forethought, planning ahead, recognition of potential consequences and attempt to mitigate those consequences.

Black students would have just capped dey ass then fucking brag to the teachers and the cops about it.

 

[YellowIsACoolColor]

Send them to a corrective labor camp for 15 years, that'll teach them a lesson.

Antisocial behavior requires strong correction.

I don't even think releasing them after a decade+ of hard labor would be the best option here. In cases like this where these "children" are making detailed murder plots the best thing to do would be to euthanize them and study their brains to be better able to detect severe antisocial personality disorders in the populace, and monitor those testing positive or remove them from society when discovered.

 

[Rick The Stick]

What does a ten year-old "cheating" on his girlfriend even entail? Pulling some other girl's hair or sharing his chips with her, or something?

In current year? I'd rather not think about it.

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

The girl who was cheated on needs to be put into therapy by her parents. The fact that she's 10 years old and the first thing that comes into her find is to kill him is actually pretty scary. She might be a future serial killer. At that age revenge should be putting a whoopie cushion on a seat or putting a worm in someones food.

I wouldn't be surprised the "cheating" was over exaggerated. He probably let a girl borrow his pencil or something.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

I don't even think releasing them after a decade+ of hard labor would be the best option here. In cases like this where these "children" are making detailed murder plots the best thing to do would be to euthanize them and study their brains to be better able to detect severe antisocial personality disorders in the populace, and monitor those testing positive or remove them from society when discovered.

I'm completely fine with "ten years without the right of correspondence" as well.

 

[DragoonSierra]

Children are cruel and I'm very in touch with my inner child!

 

[YouGuysAren'tThatSmart]

Excessively beat all of these kids then lock them up. 10 and 11 year olds already contemplating murdering someone and trying cover it as a suicide are lost causes. The beating are to show them what pain is, something they probably know nothing about.

"They would wear gloves so as not to leave behind fingerprints and forge a suicide note, the report said."

A bunch of fucking Einsteins I see. It would appears these fucking idiots don't notice that fucking schools have cameras literally everywhere except in bathrooms.